Lost for words

Busy road, young child running ahead, well there's a no,no for a start !! Could have been so much worse.
Her reaction beggars belief.

I agree that her attitude was wrong. Thank goodness you were there to help.

What can be said Oldwoman, stupid, stupid, stupid woman, she could have killed the child

Yes that was incredibly stupid and dangerous.

Yesterday, my friend and I were shopping in town. We needed to use down the escalator when a man shouted "'scuse me" as he barged past, followed a long way behind by his two young boys trying to keep up, wearing only socks on their feet - their shoes were in their hands. They were rushing to get to the newly opened trampoline centre which is downstairs to the side of the escalator. This explains why they were in stockinged feet, I suppose, but on an escalator ? It doesn't bear thinking about what could have happened if their socks had got caught in the grooves. Dad was completely oblivious of the danger and too far in front of them to have done anything. Talk about irresponsible!

Oldwoman - thank goodness you and the other responsible people were there, poor little boy. ?

It's a sad reflection that I'm not really surprised by the story of the little boy. Poor little chap, I suppose there is no hope his mother learned anything from the incident. Thank goodness you were there to help Oldwoman

She probably snapped a picture of him crying and posted about how her "little man" frightened to life out of her.

There have always been stupid and careless people in the world.
It is so frustrating to see these 'almost' accident situations as it leaves you feeling annoyed and worried!

I'd like to say Unbelievable but really its not.

Mapleleaf I was in a shopping centre a few years ago when a woman stepped on a short escalator with a child in a stroller. She went over on her ankle as she stepped on and the stroller tipped over and was heading down towards the teeth at the bottom. Most people froze and one man leapt forward and grabbed the stroller just before the child's face came into contact with them. The woman stepped off, glared at the man, snatched her child away and stormed off. I was too far away to say anything to him but everyone else just went about their business and he looked really shaken.
There is a reason they tell people to fold strollers on escalators but people always think that rules don't apply to them.

My daughter was out yesterday and right in front of her a girl aged about 7 or 8 rode her bicycle straight off the pavement in front of a truck, my daughter screamed, the child fell off her bike but the driver managed to avoid hitting her, the child was hysterical, had hurt her elbow but apart from that seemed OK. My daughter talked to her, asked her name and address etc and calmed the child down, then walked ( a long way out of her way) the child home. Knocked on the door, young woman opened the door holding a baby and said 'Yeah?' my daughter said 'I have brought your daughter home as she had an accident', the woman said 'yeah OK' and shut the door.

As you don't know what was going on in that young woman's life at that time, please try and be a little less condemning of her. Be thankful you were there in the right place to stop anything serious happening to the little boy, and don't be so quick to condemn what you are not aware of.

Appalling.
the incidents you describe as well Jaycee5 and jennil23.

My grandson, a few months back, was taking his little sisters to the park, where he saw a young lad, no more than 6 or 7, climbing on the very top of the helter skelter slide, as he had climbed over the safety rail, and gotten stuck. This was extremely high, and the boy was terrified and stuck with shock. My grandson climbed up, had to climb over the rail himself, got the lad to climb back over with the help of his sisters, and helped him down, even gave him a bar of chocolate to help him calm down as he had started hyperventilating.
His mum??
On her phone, talking, and my gs didn't believe it WAS the boys mum at first as she had watched him climb up to get the boy down, all without taking the phone away from her ear!!
He truly did not believe it when the kid ran over to her, shouting 'Mum, I was stuck up there!', she took his hand, and simply left!
My daughter told me my GS came home and gave her the biggest hug and said 'Thanks for not being a crap Mum.'
Made her day.
Its unreal. If you are with your kids you need your wits about you....xxx

This situation is terrible, people with mobiles phones and young children should be reported, its very dangerous
A friend of my sons, [no phones involved] was walking across a main road, although not very busy at the time, with his little boy running behind him, wife and new baby in pram further behind, when a motor bike came out of nowhere, little boy [7] was killed, so was baby in pram, mum was badly injured
The man should have been at least holding childs hand,

Why is this surprising? There is so much selfish behaviour nowadays. Of course seeing what is on FB, checking messages, doing a bit of shopping is much more important than taking responsibility for their actions. So lucky you were there to stop the lad landing in the road. Adults behaviour - bordering on neglect.

We certainly seem to gun for young Mothers on their phones these days. Can anyone remember the main area of criticism levelled in Grans' parenting days?

I’m sorry, nipsmum, but when you see potentially serious incidents happening and the main carer apparently oblivious and then on some occasions down right rude to those who step in to help, you can’t help but condemn their attitude, and as for the Mum who said “yeah, ok” and shut the door in the woman’s face, a simple “thank you” would have been enough, no matter what might be going on in her life, (which of course, we don’t know). What comes across in that post, however, is the Mum’s apparent lack of concern over what had happened to her daughter, which in itself is worrying rather than condemning of her.

It’s not the phones in themselves, Kim19, it’s the fact that many using them become quite oblivious of their surroundings and what is going on - not just young Mum’s, I’ll add.

I was driving past a young woman pushing a child of about 4-5 years old in a wheelchair with one hand, while talking on her phone. The footpath sloped away to the road and suddenly the wheels of the chair must’ve hit a bump and the child slid out of the chair to the ground almost rolling onto the busy road.
She, still deep in conversation, grabbed him by the neck of his sweatshirt, dragged him back onto the chair, and continued on as if nothing had happened! Totally oblivious to the danger the child could have been in ?

A girl I know slightly is a childminder. I saw her one day in the distance crossing a road while looking at her phone with a toddler trailing behind her. By the time I reached them they were a long way away. The thing is this girl also child minds for another aquaintance of mine and I didnt know whether to say anything to her about it. I'm afraid I chickened out. We all sing in a choir together and I didn't want to cause bad feeling! Perhaps I should have said something?

MaggieMay
The bit about your GC hugging and thanking their mum for 'not being a crap mum' made me smile and remember my own children saying something similar when they were young.
Your family obviously have all the right values.

Absolutely shocking incident ... and so so sad that this is actually the norm these days.

But but But! My mum, now 86, talks about being out of the house playing all day as a young child. Her mum had no idea where she was, she just turned up for meals. Yes, there where fewer cars on the road but her cousin was killed by a trolley bus and there where bombed building everywhere and not the health and safety precautions there are now. Im not saying this mum should be excused her neglect but do we idealise the past?